Tap. 8364. 
MECONOPSIS sIMpuictrro.ia. 
et 
Himalaya. 
PAPAVERACEAE. Tribe EUPAPAVEREAE. 
Mesconopsis, Vig.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 52; Prantl & Kiindig 
in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. vol. iii. pars 2, p. 141. 
Meconopsis (§ Polychaetia) simplicifolia, Walp. Rep. vol. i. p. 110; Hook. f. 
Ill. Him. Pl. t.8; Fl. des Serres, vol. xiii. t. 1824; Hook.f. et Thoms. FI. 
Ind, p. 252 et Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 118; Prain, Aun. Bot. vol. xx. p. 354; 
species P. quintuplinerviae, Regel, proxima, petalis coeruleis haud pur- 
pureis semper ultra 4 statim distincta. 
Herba monocarpica, acaulis. Folia radicalia, caespitosa, pilis barbellatis laxe 
hirsuta, ovato-lanceolata, apice acuta vel subobtusa, margine integra vel 
remote dentata, basi sensim in petiolum distinctum attenuata, 10-20 em. 
longa, 2-2°5 cm. lata, supra viridia, subtus pallidiora. lores speciosi, 
magni, in scapis simplicibus pilosis 1-foris 30-40 em. altis singuli, sub- 
erecti; alabastra nutantia. Sepala 2, oblongo-ovata, 3 cm. longa, extra 
hirsuta. Peta/a 6-8, spiraliter disposita, ovata, coerulea, 5 cm. longa, 
83cm. lata. Stamina o, pluri-seriata, filamentis angustis glabris discretis. 
Ovarium e carpellis 6-8 compositum, parce setosum, cylindricum, 2°5-3 em. 
longum ; stylus distinctus, glaber, crassus, 6-7 mm. longus; stigma 
depresso-dilatatum lobis radiantibus divaricatis ; placentae intrusae; ovula 
plurima. Capsula lineari-clavata, 2°5-5 em. longa, parce setosa; semina 
reticulata.—Papaver simplicifolium, D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 196. 
Stylophorum simplicifolium, Spreng. Syst. vol. iv. cur. post. p. 203.— 
D. PRAIN. 
The handsome Poppywort here figured has long been a 
familiar plant in European alpine gardens. It is a native 
of the high Himalayan Alps at from 12-16,000 feet above 
sea-level and extends along the southern aspect of the 
range from Central Nepal eastward to Bhutan; it also 
crosses some, at least, of the passes leading northward to 
the Tibetan table-land, and has been found at similar eleva- 
tions in the provinces of Khamba and Phari in South Tibet. 
In the section Polychaetia, characterised by the barbellate, 
in place of smooth, hairs which constitute the indumentum, 
M. simplicifolia is a member of the group Grandes, all the 
species of which have divaricately radiating stigmatic lobes. 
In two of these, M. integrifolia, Franch., figured at t. 8027, 
and M. punicea, Maxim., figured at t. 8119 of this work, the 
stigma is sessile; in the remaining species of the group 
there is, as in our plant, a distinct style. Among these 
M. simplicifolia most resembles M. quintuplinervia, Regel, a 
native of North-western China, which, however, differs in 
Marcu, 1911. 
